A QUESTION OF TIME - Award winning short student film (Part 2 of 2)

- Winner - Best Short Film at the 2nd annual Soul 4 Reel Film Festival 2011
- Winner - Campus MovieFest 365, London 2011

- SFFA Film Festival - Official Selection 2010
- Exposures Film Festival - Official Selection 2010
- 5th annual international LUMS film festival - FiLUMS - Official Selection 2011
- Nomination - Best Thriller at The National Student Film Festival, London 2011
- 36. Polish Film Festival Gdynia - Young Cinema Competition - Official Selection 2011

A QUESTION OF TIME
A short film by Radoslaw Sienski

Starring:
Gareth Dowson
Oliver Cameron
David 'Spike' Jefferson
Philip Robinson
Jonny Whitfield
J.P. Turner

Score composed by Oliver Gibson

Written, directed, shot and edited by Radoslaw Sienski

Special thanks to:
Sean Fitzgerald, Karolina Chocian, Olga Stachowska, Vicqui Whitaker, Nicola Matiwone, Lydia Shreeve, Karolina Wojciechowska, Ela Banach, Marta Wronka, Ewa Stanecka, Paull Withey, Empire Cinemas High Wycombe, Clock Clinic, Planet Magnetic

copyright Radoslaw Sienski 2010 (radek_s@hotmail.co.uk)

Bucks New University 2010

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• short
• film
• look
• super16
• student
• death
• time
• bucks
• new
• university
• childhood
• watch
• clock
• travel
• growing
• up
• festival
• narrative
• alternative
• experimental
• past
• panasonic
• p2
• camera
• post-production
• colour
• grading

[georgiajasper]

That was amazing! How did you get the effect of turning back Big Ben?

[RadekBNU]

@georgiajasper

I found out that Big Ben is operated by some Eastern Europeans and with a bribe of £5 I managed to get them to turn it on my command. It took a few attempts though:)

[sexnhell]

loved it... editin,lightin,colour toning n ovisly the story, just 1 thing to ask, how long it took from pre-productn to post? n how many crew members?

[RadekBNU]

@sexnhell

The pre-prod took about 2-3 weeks, then the shoot 4 days and the post 3 weeks which makes about 7 weeks in total. I've done most of it myself with occasional help from friends (they are listed in the credits). I hope it helps.

[helied2me]

Did you/still go to Bucks New Uni? I'm hopefully going there this year. You have a real talent, I fell in love with this film!

[RadekBNU]

@helied2me Thanks! I graduated this year. Good luck!

[gerr14ick]

that thing must be made by nokia.

[ElenaAdanwen]

My guess: he dreams that the pocket watch takes him back in time (the wallpaper looks newer) to when his son was killed, but his son still dies. He wakes and hopes that the pocket watch really could take him back, but of course it won't. When he is old he goes nuts over the watch again, only this time he goes back in time in his own mind to his childhood, and is from then on insane or senile. He hasn't actually gone back in time since the wallpaper still looks old and the watch is still broken.

[MrSkittlesluver123]

@RadekBNU thats awsome!

[alonsovalenciavisbal]

WE CANNOT CHANGED WHAT HAS ALREADY HAPPENED. Brilliant movie. what i did undertsand of this film, is that this guy, has the power to go back and forth on time, in other words a time machine. People always want to go back in time to fix things or change the curse of everything, and maybe hope their lifes can different. this guy desperately tries to forget his sons death by going back and forth in time with no luck, the answer is simple WE CANNOT CHANGED WHAT HAS ALREADY HAPPENED,

[kiweewuu]

I think i got it. The clock only lets him go back to the past one time. So he did right, but his timing was off and his son still died. So all those years he still tried and tried to go back to the past till he got old. But its useless because he wont ever. Fact: you cannot change smething that has already happened. I dont understand the last part, though.

[cherichaz]

heh??

could someone explain to me what happened? I dont really get it...why did he want to go into the future, and then go back to the past when he was young again??